Rose had been asleep for over an hour, or at least that's what Dean could tell going by the clock on the wall. Castiel still hadn't shown up, and Dean was beginning to worry. It wasn't that he thought that Cas could protect himself it was just they were in a different dimension that Lucifer didn't seem to know about so that means that Heaven must not know about it or even be here. Cas might be freaking out because he couldn't feel his brothers or Heaven or some other Angel crap.
Dean was startled from his thoughts by the sight of blue eyes looking at him from the doorway.
"Hey, Cas," he said proceeded by a small cough to clear his throat.
"Hello, Dean." It was the usual greeting that he always got from the Angel, but this time he couldn't help but notice Castiel's stiff posture and the way his gaze kept flickering to Rose.
Dean brushed it off as nothing. It was probably just stress or he was ticked at the girl for dragging them into something they didn't ask to be in. Well, they did drag her into a scuffle with Lucifer and away from her Doctor so they couldn't really hold a grudge. "Where have you been?"
"Sitting in the park across the street," was his blunt answer. "It seems that I no longer have any connection with any other Angel or Heaven. There doesn't seem to be any other supernatural beings around here either that I can tell of."
"Oh." Dean was beginning to feel a little nervous for no good reason. Just all of this was happening at the speed of light. Well, maybe not that fast, but it was happening fast. "Hey, Cas, do you really think she can get us home?"
Cas focused his stare on Rose and thought for a moment, "No."
The hunter was shocked at his blunt, negative answer but upon remembering what Cas had told the Doctor about having no faith he laughed. "Now who has no faith, Cas? She's the Doctor's lover. I think she can do it.
"No, I'm not," came a muffled response by Dean's shoulder.
Dean was a little startled by Rose's sudden awakening, but Cas only blinked.
Rose sat up and rubbed her neck where she had slept wrong on it. "I'm not his lover. I love him. That doesn't make me his lover."
Dean blinked and looked at Rose with vexed expression on his face, which he quickly hid with a smile. "Sucks for him. You're gorgeous."
Rose smiled sleepily, but even though she was tired she still noticed the way Castiel tensed even more and started to walk out of the room. "Wait, Castiel. Where are you going?" she asked with slight curiosity about why Castiel was acting like this. Since they had gotten to the hospital he had been reluctant to speak to her, and what few responses she got out of him were short and usually one-syllable words.
"You and Dean clearly want to be together, and I do think I should pray some more."
"W-what?" Dean stammered out, "Cas, Rose is attractive, but I'm not- we're not-"
"I don't swing that way, Castiel," Rose interrupted him. "I only take Time Lords. One in particular."
Cas only nodded disbelievingly before walking out of the room.
Rose looked over at Dean's expression. He looked like he wanted to bang his head against a wall, and then something finally clicked in her head. She shook her head and sighed, "Are you normally this dense?"
"What?"
Rose just gave him a 'you can't really be this stupid, can you' look and slipped off the bed. "I'm going to go with him. You should sleep," Rose told him before she walked out into the hallway to find Castiel.
After a friendly little argument between the Doctor and Jack, about the Doctor not having twenty bucks to give Jack after he won the bet, the TARDIS was beginning to settle down. Sally had retired into a room to sleep, Jack was cleaning his gun (much to the Doctor's dislike of the thing) and talking to the Doctor while he was doing it, and Sam and Gabriel had taken to the far side of the control room, away from the Doctor and Jack, to talk. Sam was happy that the archangel was back, but part of him was still pissed that he faked his own death in the first place. When their conversation had gone quiet Sam finally asked.
"Why'd you do it?"
"Do what, Samsquatch?"
Sam glared at him with his well-known bitch face, "Fake your own death."
"Oh that," Gabriel said as he conjured another lollipop. His fifth one since getting on the ship, "If Heaven and my brothers thought I was dead, I wouldn't have to deal with their family scuffles for world power."
Sam was stunned. This was low even for the Archangel. Sam suddenly felt a sharp wave of anger flow over him, "We mourned you, Gabriel! You could have at least told us! You could have told me!"
"Whoa there, Sam," Gabriel put his hands up in a defensive matter. "I didn't want to tell you guys because then I would have to deal with your bullshit. Plus one of you would have blown my cover. Oh, and I'm not sorry for making you mourn me. You should have. I was the best thing to happen to you guys."
Sam let out an annoyed laugh. "Yeah because killing Dean over and over again is really great."
"You still holding me to that? I thought you would be over that by now. I guess I was wrong."
Sam shook his head. He was feeling the beginnings of a headache starting to form. "You're a bastard."
"Yeah, I am, Sammy, but you still love me," Gabriel smirked.
The younger Winchester tensed at that. His first response was to say, "yeah, I do" but he decided against it. He kept trying to tell himself that he didn't love Gabriel, but the more he thought about it the more clear it became that he did. Sam made an obtuse gesture with his hands, which really didn't mean anything, at Gabriel before walking over to the Doctor.
"So, Doc, where are we headed?" Sam asked.
The Doctor looked up from where he was sitting on the ground talking to Jack. "No where. I brought you back to the Impala where you are going to take Gabriel and go," the Doctor said like Sam should have already known.
"What! What about Dean and Cas?"
"Rose will get them back if she can, but there is no use in waiting around. It will take some time. You might be without your brother for a couple months, even years."
"What!" Sam repeated. He was beginning to panic. He didn't think it would take that long. "This is a time machine, right? Can't we just go into the future when they come back?"
The Doctor looked at Sam like he was completely stupid. "If. If they come back, for one thing, and, for another, I don't think those things they use work like that. I don't know much about them. I personally don't agree with them. They mess everything up."
"Are you saying my brother could be stuck in another dimension forever?"
"Yes, that is exactly what I'm saying, so you should act like he's not coming back and continue with your work."
Sam looked back at the Doctor speechless. He was being somewhat harsh. Like he had gone through losing someone important to him so many times that now it didn't hurt him. "I'll go get Sally then," Sam said to cover up the deep feeling of sorrow and worry he was now feeling for his brother.
"No, leave her." This time it was Jack that spoke. Sam just gave him a questioning look and Jack got what he was asking. "The Doctor and I are taking her home. She doesn't need to be tangled in this mess any longer."
"Have you ever thought that Lucifer might come after her again? She's safer with me," Sam argued.
The Doctor stood. He was a lot shorter than Sam, but his glare had Sam backing down a little. "No, being with you is what got her captured and tortured by Lucifer. She's safest with Larry."
"Who the hell is that?"
"A human."
"I'm a human."
The Doctor was getting frustrated, and he ran his hands in his hair to try and calm himself down before replying. "A normal human. One that doesn't go around hunting things that should only be in people's nightmares and that has an Angel as his best friend."
"Isn't Jack human?" Sam asked. He like the thought of Sally being with Jack than some random guy. At least Jack could protect her, and he was beginning to warm up to Jack the more time he spent with him.
Jack stood and laughed, "Immortal human. Plus I fight things that only should show up in people's nightmares too, so I'm not an option."
"You're immortal?"
"As a god."
"Do you want to fight Lucifer?" Sam asked sarcastically.
"Nope. I don't think my immortality has been tested by angelic powers, and, personally, I don't want to try."
They were interrupted by a knock on the door. They looked at each other in shock before the Doctor went to the door and opened it cautiously. There stood Gabriel with a lollipop in his mouth and a frustrated look on his face. He stormed past the Doctor and back up to the consul.
"Doctor, why can I mojo out, but not in?" Gabriel was clearly annoyed by the fact that his powers were being limited by this blue box.
"It's just how the TARDIS works," the Doctor answered matter-of-factly. He was pretty sure he had already been over this with the Angel.
"It's stupid."
Sam smiled. "Gabriel, quit acting like a child that has just been denied his favorite piece of candy."
"I'm not that annoyed, Sam," Gabriel laughed. "Denying someone candy is serious business."
"Only to you, Gabe."
"Yeah, whatever."
"Castiel! Castiel, wait up!" Rose yelled as she ran down the sidewalk to catch up with him. When she finally caught up to him she grabbed his arm to stop him. He did then he turned to look at her.
"What the heck, Castiel? Why are you just going to leave Dean like that? He wants you there."
Cas just gave her an intense stare before responding. "He seemed to like your company better than mine."
"My God! How freaking dense are you guys? Honestly!"
"I do not understand what you are-"
"He loves you!"
"Dean does not love me."
"To Hell that he doesn't. I can tell just by looking at you two!"
Cas just gave her a confused look and that famous head tilt of his.
Rose sighed. "Look, you guys may be stuck here for a long time, and we don't have aliens here so I'm pretty sure we don't have anything supernatural for you guys to fight. You don't have connection with Heaven, right?"
Castiel's eyes flickered with sadness. "That is correct."
"Can you do any angel stuff?"
"No. I cannot heal Dean or travel places anymore."
"See? No supernatural stuff around here. You're human while you are here so start acting like one and talk to Dean."
"I still have my wings."
Rose gave him a weird look. "Okay… whatever. You still can't do the angel power crap so you're human with two extra body parts." Rose shifted on her feet. "I don't know how long it will be before I can get you two back, and we cant go anywhere until Dean is better which will take a month or two so just try and settle down like a normal human for a while."
Castiel continued to give her a confused look. Rose really did interest him. She acted really sweet and kind and the next moment she would be in full battle mode. Castiel made a note in his head to learn more about her. For some reason she reminded him of Dean, and he wanted to know why.
Rose checked her watch and mumbled "dammit" under her breath. "Cas, I have to go back to Torchwood. I'll come by later to see Dean, and about settling down for a while, I can get you an apartment next to mine or you and Dean can live with me. I'm barely home anyway. I practically live at Torchwood." She walked a few paces past him before she stopped and turned around to wave at him. "I'll tell you more about all this later. I promise."
The four men stayed around the consul just talking for what seemed like hours, but was probably not much longer than forty-five minutes. Their conversations drifted from topic to topic, but they had purposely avoided the any topic having to do with Dean and Castiel stuck in an alternant dimension. The Doctor talked about Rose and Martha. He had said that Martha was his last companion and that before they had met outside the house with the Weeping Angels that she had just left. He didn't specify why she had left. He just said that she had left. He talked more about his adventures with Rose. Sam didn't know how clear it was to the others, but he was positive that the Doctor loved her more than anything. When he was done Sam told them about some of his hunts with his brother and more about Lucifer and the oncoming apocalypse. According to the Doctor, he had stopped the world from being destroyed a few times too so they were on the same page. Although, they found that most of the alien-brought-on apocalypses seemed to take place in Britain while the supernatural ones in America, which they found a bit odd. After talking and laughing with each other the Doctor had begun to be nicer to Sam and Gabriel, and Sam was beginning to like Jack a lot. His stories made more sense to Sam, not a lot but some. Sam guessed it was because Jack actually used guns, while the Doctor seemed appalled by them. When the conversations were beginning to slow down the Doctor asked for Sam's cellphone.
"What do you want with my phone?" he asked but handed his phone over to the Doctor anyway.
The Doctor took it and started messing around with it with his Sonic Screwdriver. "If you ever need to get a hold of me. Plus if you get caught in some crossfire and end up on some random planet you wont lose signal," the Doctor explain with a smile after he had handed the phone back.
"Speaking of finding people," Sam began, "Gabriel, how did you find me? We have those Enochian sigil things carved into out ribs. I though you couldn't track us."
Gabriel looked up from saying something to Jack at Sam question. "I think I can tell when my little brother suddenly goes missing from the face of the earth, Sasquatch. I just went to the last place Cas had been before he disappeared and then followed the insanely large time-trail left on the place. The TARDIS leaves a lot of it."
Sam was satisfied with the answer, however weird the whole time-TARDIS-alien thing was to him.
They all laughed at something Gabriel had said when a sleepy looking Sally walked up to the consul.
"Well, looks who's awake," Jack joked before pulling her into a hug. She laid her head on his shoulder like she was going to go back to sleep right there. Jack laughed and pushed her away. "As much as I would love to sleep with you I don't think we should do it out here."
"Jack, stop it," the Doctor warned with a stern glare.
Sally laughed. "I haven't slept that good in years. So where are we going to?"
Everyone suddenly went quiet, even Gabriel, which was surprising. The Doctor spoke up first, "Sally, I'm taking everyone home. I want you to go back to Larry."
That seemed to snap her out of her sleep. "What! But I don't want to go back! Jack, tell him I'm going with you!"
"Sorry, Sally, but the Doctor's right. It will be safer for you with Larry."
Sally looked shocked and betrayed. "Sam!" she began.
"Sammy's leaving too, dearie, and if we are trying to keep you out of danger you are definitely not going with him," Gabriel interjected, sarcasm, for once, not found in his voice.
Sally looked at the four men in front of her and sighed. "Don't I get a say in this? I do hunt Weeping Angels. I can take danger."
"Yes, but Sally," the Doctor explained, "you have mastered the best defense technique for the Weeping Angels. I don't think staring at Lucifer is going to stop him from hurting you."
"Besides, isn't Larry worried about you?" Sam suggested upon seeing the sadness creep over the woman's features.
At hearing Sam's suggestion Sally felt a prick of guilt for leaving Larry by himself two years ago.
"Please, Doctor. I've been looking for you for two years. I'm fine with being in danger, and it's not like I won't be safe with you and Jack around."
The Doctor cringed. He was beginning to cave in. He did just lose Martha and he wouldn't have a companion if Jack left. "Um… Sally, I don't know…"
Gabriel snorted, "Let the girl stay. She wants to and she already slept with this guy," he pointed at Sam, "and everyone he sleeps with get's killed. "
"Hey!" Sam yelled.
Gabriel only smiled before starting again, "It might do her good to travel around the universe. Get as far away from Sam as possible, and if she's with you, you can keep an eye on her."
Sally made a weird hand gesture to Gabriel that practically said, See! What he said!
The Doctor thought for a moment before reluctantly saying with a small smile, "Oh fine." He pointed a finger at her, "But no running off."
Sally practically jumped from happiness and ran over to hug Gabriel, "Thanks, Gabriel!"
Gabriel laughed and hugged her back, "Anytime sweetheart."
Sam narrowed his eyes and the two hugging when suddenly he heard a voice in his mind growl "Mine." Sam blinked and thought about it, and he somehow knew that the voice wasn't being possessive over Sally.
Author's Notes: Thanks for the feedback! It's greatly appreciated! I'm planning on doing a couple chapters with Dean and Cas living together and being normal humans for once in in their lives, so sorry if that's not what you planned when you started reading this story. Please R&R! Reviews make my day!